The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional dynamics. It forms the final leg between West and East Asia. The region is one of the most climate-vulnerable …
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) undertook a series of research activities together with partners in the Eastern Himalayas from 2007 to 2008 to provide a preliminary assessment of the impacts and vulnerability of this region to climate change. Activities included rapid surveys at country level, thematic workshops, …
The Myanmar government has done little to put villagers battered by Cyclone Nargis back on their feet Barun Roy / New Delhi May 06, 2010, 0:01 IST Two years after a devastating cyclone battered Myanmar
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: China's dam-building spree along the Mekong river in south-western Yunnan province has raised fears among several of its neighbours, who say the dams have led to shrinking levels of water downstream. Officials from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, countries which lie in the Mekong basin, will on …
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular
The objective was to study dengue vector breeding patterns under a variety of conditions in public and private spaces; to explore the ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) factors involved in vector breeding and viral transmission, and to define the main implications for vector control.
A team of women in Myanmar have risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit. The report exposes the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled country. Myanmar’s military regime gives the impression that poppy cultivation continues in areas only under the control of ethnic …
Sanjib Kumar Roy | ENS THE Indian Coast Guard (ICG) apprehended 11 Myanm a re s e a n d t h re e T h a i poachers along with their boat, the Sa Pong Khol, near the Bompaka Island of the Nicobar group of islands on Sunday, of …
The report shows that while tigers are in dire trouble in some areas, they are still hanging on in others. Meanwhile, opportunities to grow tiger populations in landscapes where conservation efforts are beginning to take hold. The report card looks at key threats to tigers and monitors success in the …
India and Thailand today emphasized the need for early completion of the trilateral highway linking Moreh to Maesot (Thailand) through Bagan in Myanmar. The issue figured at a discussion between Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Korbsak Sabhavasu and Minister of Development of North East Region (DoNER) and Mines, BK Handique …
Within few decades, climate change has quadrupled the number of natural disasters. Especially in Asia, more and more people are affected. Bangladesh is one of the countries where disaster risk reduction works fairly well. And Burma (Myanmar) is trying to enhance the crisis management after the bad experience with cyclone …
This report calls for Asia's first regional climate change adaptation agreement in the Greater Mekong region, which, as one of the regions with richest biological diversity on the earth, is already strongly affected by climate change. It urges politicians to strike an ambitious and fair agreement on a climate treaty …
The rare Arakan forest turtle, once thought to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, researchers said Monday. A Texas researcher, Steven Platt, and staff of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society discovered five of the brown-and-tan-spotted turtles in May during a survey of wildlife in …
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale shook the North-East in the wee hours today with its epicentre at Myanmar-India border region, reports PTI. People ran out of their houses as the quake, biggest in the past nine years, rocked buildings triggering panic. However no reports of casualties …
The Food and Agriculture Organi-sation (FAO) of the United Nations has put Bangladesh on a list of 31 countries that are in substantial need of food assistance in 2009. Most of the food-insecure least developed countries (LDCs) are in Africa, while five are in Asia, and one is Caribbean. Of …
The cost related to per cubic meter- general use of gas in Bangladesh is exclusively lowest compared to 15 countries in Asia, according to a survey conducted by Japan External Trade Organisation Organization (JETRO), the official trade and investment promotion agency of Government of Japan. The survey revealed the cost …
A private company operated in Myanmar has shown interest in setting up a hydroelectricity power plant with the capacity of 500 megawatt in Rakhine state for exporting electricity to Bangladesh. Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Thursday revealed this while addressing a seminar as the chief guest on Bangladesh-Myanmar relations …
This publication reports on the human and economic losses caused by natural disasters in 2008 with figures based on the EM-DAT database with comparisons to previous years. It asserts that although fewer disasters occurred in 2008, events had a larger impact than usual on human settlements. In 2008 once again, …
